In the annals of American history, periods of political turbulence and constitutional challenges are not unprecedented.

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, wealthy elite that goads such men on.

On 22 September 1995, the Constituent Assembly adopted a Constitution, which subsequently came into force on 8th October of the same year. The Preamble to that document memorializes that the people of ...

Defiance so breaches the American norm that two episodes stand out, both in the 1800s, involving President Andrew Jackson’s ...

There’s language in the Arkansas Constitution that has exceptions for slavery or involuntary servitude, but a bill recently filed in the Arkansas House is looking to erase that.

The Trump administration is arguing that the Constitution's birthright citizenship guarantee doesn't apply to undocumented ...

Vance is undoubtedly setting the stage for the inevitable: Trump’s flouting of federal court orders, which, given Congress’s ...

The new administration may transform our constitutional order fruitfully yet again, or it may accelerate a final degeneration ...

Federal judges in Washington and Maryland say the president's attack on birthright citizenship flouts the 14th Amendment and ...

Among Trump’s actions were the executive order on birthright citizenship, a short-lived freeze on distribution of federal aid ...

The new Trump presidency has arrived where it was always destined to land — in the courts. The White House suffered a pair of hitches Thursday in its drive to shred the US government using expansive ...